Ultimate Shenron
Ultimate Shenron (究極神龍 Kyūkyoku Shenron, lit. "Ultimate Dragon God" or "Ultimate Divine Dragon") is a character in the Dragon Ball franchise. He is the third eternal dragon introduced in Dragon Ball. Like Shenron and Porunga, Ultimate Shenron can only be summoned by using a particular collection of Dragon Balls, the Black Star Dragon Balls in this case.
Name: Ultimate Shenron
Origin: Dragon Ball GT
Age: 100s of Years
Gender: Male
Species: Wish Dragon
While Shenron and Porunga are both shown to be comparable in size to a large skyscraper, Ultimate Shenron is shown to be larger than both of these eternal dragons combined. While coiling, Shenron has been shown as being roughly the size of The Lookout. Ultimate Shenron on the other hand is so large that his head alone is roughly the size of the lookout. Also, while Shenron has his "whiskers" on the upper part of his mouth, Ultimate Shenron has them on the lower part of its jaw. Ultimate Shenron's skin color is blood red rather than green and also had gold horns. Interestingly enough, he lacks the red eyes that the other eternal dragons have, and instead has yellow or blue-green ones. Ultimate Shenron's eyes are blue in the opening for Dragon Ball GT, the episode "The Game After Life", and the Hero Mode of Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi.
Biography[edit | edit source]
Dragon Ball GT[edit | edit source]
Black Star Dragon Ball Saga[edit | edit source]
In Dragon Ball GT, Ultimate Shenron is used to cause Goku to turn back into a child, in a wish accidentally made by Emperor Pilaf (though Pilaf was originally going to wish to take over the world).
Baby Saga[edit | edit source]
He is later summoned by Baby, and instructed to restore Planet Vegeta (which Baby renamed to New Planet Plant) and relocate it to Earth's solar system. Due to Baby using the Dragon Balls to make the wish, the one-year countdown from Pilaf's wish did not stop.
After Piccolo sacrificed his own life by remaining behind on the dying Earth, the Black Star Dragon Balls turned to stone permanently and Ultimate Shenron was never shown again.
Other Dragon Ball Stories[edit | edit source]
Ultimate Tenkaichi[edit | edit source]
In the Hero Mode of the Ultimate Tenkaichi game, Omega Shenron makes the wish to Ultimate Shenron to make Earth a living Hell. Once the Hero finds Ultimate Shenron on Kami's Lookout, the eternal dragon has been controlled by Omega Shenron's negative energy and attacks the hero while the hero was trying to make a wish. However, while being controlled by the negative energy, Ultimate Shenron begs the Hero to bring him back to normal and to stop his controlled attacks. Once defeated, the Hero asks for Ultimate Shenron to restore Earth as to how it was before Omega Shenron made his wish. However, Ultimate Shenron explains that he cannot grant this wish due to the negative energy being much stronger than the Dragon's creator, Kami. Ultimate Shenron instead grants the Hero's new wish to bring back all those who were killed by the chaos Omega Shenron created.
Even though Ultimate Shenron is the eternal Dragon for the Black Star Dragon Balls, their effect of causing the planet they were used on to self-destruct after one year is absent in Ultimate Tenkaichi. This meant to be removing the side-effect for good. It is implied that Kami recreated the Black Star Dragon Balls through Piccolo whom had become the Nameless Namekian by fusing with Kami.
Wishes[edit | edit source]
- Dragon Ball GT
- Emperor Pilaf accidentally wished for Goku to be turned back into a child (Pilaf was originally going to wish for world domination before Goku walks in to find out where the mysterious light is coming from).
- Baby wished for Planet Vegeta to be brought back into existence in Earth's Solar System.
- Ultimate Tenkaichi
- Omega Shenron wished to make Earth a living Hell.
- Ultimate Tenkaichi Hero wished to revive everyone killed by Omega Shenron's chaos.
Voice Actors[edit | edit source]
- Japanese: Kenji Utsumi (GT), Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Heroes)
- English:
- Funimation dub: Christopher Sabat
- Blue Water dub: Dave Pettitt
- Brazilian Portuguese dub: Renato Master
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- He seems smaller in Ultimate Tenkaichi than in other appearances.
- He is the only Shenron to have granted a wish made by another Shenron.
- To date, he is the second largest eternal dragon in the Dragon Ball Franchise, second only to Super Shenron.
